Maybe try a Zoom 8mm - 24 mm eyepiece (Meade or others)
I buy mine after alot of shopping around and price comparsions from Steve at MyAstroShop
http://www.myastroshop.com.au/products/swide-ep.asp and get them mailed to me. Andrews Communications has very well priced cheaper gear ED - (read better glass) eye pieces. But a $55 Plossl vs a $80 ED eye piece vs a $320 Vixen Ultra Wide is simply an amazing progression (and I've yet to try a $500 Nagler).
So far I am estactic withe the large, heavy (450 gram) 65 degree Vixens LVW. They are simple brillaint to see through.
I started collecing eye-pieces going from 25mm Plossl to 32, then 18, 12, 6 (gave these all away to my brother). Then got 18mm ED and 11, 9.5 and 7.5 for planetary (from Andrews) - I use them occassionally. Then I got a Zoom lens for $125
http://www.myastroshop.com.au/produc...asp?id=MAS-188
Then I went 2 * 22mm LVW (for bino viewing
then I added a 13mm and 8mm and its been
since.
Another factor which added alot of joy was moving from a poor quality finderscope to one of Andrews Comms 50mm * 8 magnification viewer. For me using a 80mm refractor and a 9.25 SCT 2" diagonals brought alot of joy (cheap around $125 from BinTel), then a Meade electronic focuser on the SCT (for astro photography).
But the biggest convience is probably to suggest you buy or build a permanent pier at some stage ($300 - $600) as it adds so much to speed up to your viewing, and safety (can't be knocked over). If you can gradually move to an astro lab (skyshed should be available soon - and they look like a great semi-permanent set up for a third the cost of a Sirus dome set up.
The joy of simply going out, openning up a 2.4m square lab, taking of the scope covers, booting PC, powering on Goto mount and entering the date and time (haven't automated this yet), linking the scope goto to Carte du Ciel and then driving all the viewing from the PC, sitting on a really comfortable adjustable (Officeworks) barstool with back support - all in under 5 minutes - is terrific. And being on a permanent pier means my gotos are normally spot on.
My next major expense is likely to be park the $1,200 Celestron CG5 goto mount and go to a much higher quality, larger capacity, better pointing and better (Periodic Error) tracking mount (probably a Vixen Atlux or a Celestron CGE, maybe a Takashi or a Losmandy G11). If I wanted to stay under this level of expense ($5K - $7K) I'd simply head for a goto EQ6 for around $2,300.
Keep it up and I guarantee you'll think and possible pursue:
1. Speed up set-up (piers are great!)
2. Get good quality binoculars (recomment Andrews 80 * 20 triplets $220)
3. Get a comfortable very adjustable chair (with backrest)
4. Add goto and a better finderscope
5. Add a second smaller ED refractor
6. Add more and higher quality eye-pieces
7. Use skycharts
8. Get a bigger mount
9. Add dew elimiators or house the scope in a weatherproof enclosure
PS
Huge hint - go to a sky party - try others scopes, get expeirnced members to check out your set-up, plan your next steps and have alot of fun!